Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

10.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

22.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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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 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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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

36.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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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

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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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.

44.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz