Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Gibran, Kahlil

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carmichael, Amy

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Delp, Alexis

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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 is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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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 will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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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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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

43.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare