Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Verse, A Haiku

Best Quotes about Love

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

46.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda