Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hoffman, Lisa

Best Quotes about Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Thurber, James

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

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.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Plato

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

24.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

25.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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 the bridge between two hearts.

33.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

42.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.