Motivational Quotes

Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Bible

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

10.

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

Delp, Alexis

11.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

John Sheffield

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

15.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

19.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Proverb, Irish

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bourget, Paul

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

37.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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

39.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

40.

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John