Motivational Quotes

Love

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Rowland, Helen

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

10.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

14.

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

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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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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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

25.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Jennifer Aniston

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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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

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis