Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

- Hardenberg, Novalis

Best Quotes about Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Jeanne Moreau

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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.

43.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von