Motivational Quotes

Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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.

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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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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John