Motivational Quotes

Love

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

11.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

12.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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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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

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

30.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

31.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

32.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

35.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

38.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

40.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

41.

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

42.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

44.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.