Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

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

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

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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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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

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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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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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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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Carmichael, Amy

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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 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

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor