Motivational Quotes

Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Auerbach, Red

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

10.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

12.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

13.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

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.

15.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

16.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

17.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

18.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

20.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

23.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

27.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

28.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

29.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Confucius

35.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buber, Martin

44.

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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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

46.

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

Duras, Marguerite

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar