Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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 ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Ice T

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar