Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Best Quotes about Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

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

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.