Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Clark, Melanie

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

10.

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

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

13.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Murdoch, Iris

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

National Lampoon

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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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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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

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.