Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Love

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Allen, Woody

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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