Motivational Quotes

Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

11.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

12.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Jean Anouilh

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Behn, Aphra

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Hay, Louise L.

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.