Motivational Quotes

Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Youngman, Henny

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

10.

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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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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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

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

15.

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

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

19.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

21.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

24.

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

Hay, Louise L.

25.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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