Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

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

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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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

11.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

12.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

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

Real Live Preacher

15.

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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

20.

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

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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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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

33.

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.

34.

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 is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt