Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Orwell, George

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Guthrie, Arlo

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

10.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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 wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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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

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

49.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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