Motivational Quotes

Love

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Love

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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

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

Marlowe, Christopher

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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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 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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Calvino, Italo

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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'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

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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 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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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T