Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Horton, Doug

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Dryden, John

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hugo, Victor

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.