Motivational Quotes

Love

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

- Barthes, Roland

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Nathan, George Jean

10.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

11.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Voltaire

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

Confucius

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Charles M. Schulz

26.

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

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

28.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

33.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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

44.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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