Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

12.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

14.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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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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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Croft, Roy

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Brown, Les

22.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Disney, Walt

27.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

28.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

30.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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

Youngman, Henny

34.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

41.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Wilkerson, David

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

49.

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 don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld