Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Love

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disney, Walt

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

James, William

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.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

10.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Proverb, Irish

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Shakespeare, William

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

30.

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

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peter Ustinov

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Charles M. Schulz

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.