Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Brown, Les

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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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

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wieder, Marcia

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Blanton, Smiley

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

Carmichael, Amy

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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

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

Lennon, John

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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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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Thurber, James

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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

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.