Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Duras, Marguerite

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

11.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

12.

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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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

18.

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

Bible

19.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

26.

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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

32.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

38.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

40.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

44.

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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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

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jennifer Aniston

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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David