Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Law, William

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

12.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

14.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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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.

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.

29.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

30.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

Thurber, James

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques