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

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

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Diane Ackerman

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

11.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

24.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

30.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

33.

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 a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

35.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

36.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

40.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

43.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

49.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

50.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De