Motivational Quotes

Love

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

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

11.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Elizabeth Aston

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann