Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Julie Morgenstern

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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

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

Delp, Alexis

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

25.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Voltaire

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Reik, Theodor

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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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.

Carl Jung

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