Motivational Quotes

Love

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Love

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

Carroll, Pat

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

10.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

11.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

12.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

13.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

14.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

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

Erica Jong

18.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

19.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

27.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

28.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

29.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

30.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

31.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

32.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

33.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

34.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

35.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

40.

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

William Penn

41.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

47.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

49.

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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts