Motivational Quotes

Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

- Williams, William Carlos

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Behn, Aphra

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, French

10.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Calvino, Italo

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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.

Bette Davis

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Aristotle

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Wilkerson, David

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Elizabeth Aston

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert