Motivational Quotes

Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

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

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Blanton, Smiley

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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'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