Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Scherer, Paul

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Seneca

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

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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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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.

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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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 is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Cho

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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe