Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

19.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

Augustine, St.

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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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

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Jeph Jacques

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Brown, Les

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

45.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia