Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

31.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Davies, Robertson

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

45.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

Williams, William Carlos