Motivational Quotes

Love

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Dickinson, Emily

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

19.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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 is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

39.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius