Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

- Northern Exposure

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Bible

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Hay, Louise L.

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

11.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

12.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

19.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Jeanne Moreau

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Jean Anouilh

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

31.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

44.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Carl Jung

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

47.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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.