Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

12.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

14.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

18.

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

Heinlein, Robert

19.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Fox, Emmet

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

29.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

31.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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

40.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.