Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Love

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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

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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

18.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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 the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

38.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jane Austen

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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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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma