Motivational Quotes

Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

10.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

11.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

12.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Delp, Alexis

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

15.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Brown, Les

18.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Croft, Roy

20.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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

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

Behn, Aphra

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

27.

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

Buber, Martin

28.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

34.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

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'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

43.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

45.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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

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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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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