Motivational Quotes

Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buddha

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

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

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

15.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

18.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

19.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

29.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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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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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.