Motivational Quotes

Love

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Best Quotes about Love

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

Dyer, Wayne

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

28.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

32.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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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.

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Jane Austen

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.