Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hertl, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

42.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese