Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Taylor, Jeremy

10.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

11.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

18.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

21.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

24.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

25.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

30.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

31.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb

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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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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William