Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Julie Morgenstern

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

10.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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

36.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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 makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

Nathan, George Jean

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.