Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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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.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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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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Kempis, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Toni Morrison

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

Anton Chekhov

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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 bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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