Motivational Quotes

Love

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

11.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

15.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

20.

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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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.

Young, Margaret

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

29.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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 alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

38.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hay, Louise L.

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya