Motivational Quotes

Love

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

- Du Coeur

Best Quotes about Love

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

41.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Dickinson, Emily