Motivational Quotes

Love

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Best Quotes about Love

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Alan Watts

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

Horton, Doug

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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 love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

William Shakespeare

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley