Motivational Quotes

Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

- Vicious, Sid

Best Quotes about Love

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Turner, Ted

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

32.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

33.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

34.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

40.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.