Motivational Quotes

Love

Love without attachment is light.

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Love

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

12.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

28.

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

Allen, Woody

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Buddha

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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