Motivational Quotes

Love

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Love

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

Capote, Truman

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Mencken, H. L.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

14.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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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.

21.

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

Saltus, Edgar

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

28.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

29.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

40.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

41.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

43.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.