Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

10.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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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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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Pavese, Cesare

28.

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

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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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.

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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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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne