Motivational Quotes

Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

- O'Brien, Edna

Best Quotes about Love

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

Wilkerson, David

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Dyer, Wayne

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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.

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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 yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon