Motivational Quotes

Love

Our first and last love is... self-love.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Buddha

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert 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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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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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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

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

39.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Michael Patrick King

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