Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Murdoch, Iris

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Hugo, Victor

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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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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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van