Motivational Quotes

Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Buddha

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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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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.