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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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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 is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean