Motivational Quotes

Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Ackerman, Diane

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

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

Bible

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Mansfield, Katherine