Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mother Teresa

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

Fromm, Erich

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

Reik, Theodor

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

19.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

20.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

21.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

22.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

23.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

24.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

26.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

27.

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

28.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

30.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

31.

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

32.

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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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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Paolo Giordano

45.

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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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

47.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

48.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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