Motivational Quotes

Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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 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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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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

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Saltus, Edgar

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir