Motivational Quotes

Love

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Ackerman, Diane

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

20.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

31.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

43.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.