Motivational Quotes

Love

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

- Henry Bromel

Best Quotes about Love

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

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Williams, William Carlos

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Calvino, Italo

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

John of the Cross, St.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

John Sheffield

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Seneca

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Horton, Doug

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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