Motivational Quotes

Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

- David Viscott

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Carmichael, Amy

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

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

Confucius

11.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

12.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

15.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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.

17.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

21.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

24.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

25.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

26.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

27.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

28.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

29.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

31.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

33.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

34.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

35.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

41.

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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold