Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

10.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

11.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Verse, A Haiku

13.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

18.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

21.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Brown, Les

24.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

27.

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

28.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

37.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

42.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

Donne, John