Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Crawford, Joan

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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.

10.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Buber, Martin

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

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

14.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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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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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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

36.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.