Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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 never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

11.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

19.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

20.

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

21.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

32.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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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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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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Turner, Ted

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

40.

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

Vicious, Sid

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

49.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.