Motivational Quotes

Love

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

- Tsvetaeva, Marina

Best Quotes about Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Tsvetaeva, Marina

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl