Motivational Quotes

Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Mcdonald, George

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Allen, Woody

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

28.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

46.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.