Motivational Quotes

Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Love

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Calvino, Italo

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

Jeph Jacques

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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 love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos