Motivational Quotes

Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Hugo, Victor

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

11.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

15.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

18.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

42.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ice T

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

Buddha

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret