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

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

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Reagan, Ronald

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

12.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

13.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

17.

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

Charles M. Schulz

18.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

20.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Bible

24.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

27.

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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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Duras, Marguerite

33.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

36.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

40.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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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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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.