Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

William Shakespeare

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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 one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

28.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

40.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Real Live Preacher

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe