Motivational Quotes

Love

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

10.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

15.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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 is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

29.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

30.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Carmichael, Amy

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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

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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 will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

Jennifer Aniston