Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

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

Julie Morgenstern

11.

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.

12.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Southey, Robert

14.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

16.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

17.

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

18.

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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

20.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

33.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

35.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

36.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

37.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

40.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Thurber, James

42.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

43.

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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

45.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

46.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

48.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

49.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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