Motivational Quotes

Love

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Jeph Jacques

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

12.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

15.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

16.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

19.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Wilkerson, David

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

Federman, Irwin

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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