Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Rowland, Helen

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Wieder, Marcia

14.

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

Scott Westerfeld

15.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

16.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

19.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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

21.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

24.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

28.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

29.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

33.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

34.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

35.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

36.

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

Jean Anouilh

37.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

40.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

41.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

43.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

45.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

46.

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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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

49.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard