Motivational Quotes

Love

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Love

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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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

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

13.

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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

18.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

19.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

20.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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 the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

25.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

32.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

35.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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

39.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.