Motivational Quotes

Love

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

- Federman, Irwin

Best Quotes about Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

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

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

16.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Richardson, Nick

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle