Motivational Quotes

Love

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

- Jennifer Aniston

Best Quotes about Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

11.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

13.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

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

15.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

23.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Jerome, St.

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.