Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

William Shakespeare

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Elizabeth Aston

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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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 said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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.

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

William Penn

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Blanton, Smiley

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.