Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

10.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

11.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

12.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

13.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

15.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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 believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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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.

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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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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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

33.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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