Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

- Rossner, Judith

Best Quotes about Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

William Shakespeare

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

11.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

West, Mae

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.