Motivational Quotes

Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Croft, Roy

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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.

10.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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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, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Chanel, Coco

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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 shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Brown, Les

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

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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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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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

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

38.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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