Motivational Quotes

Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Law, William

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

William Shakespeare

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De