Motivational Quotes

Love

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

31.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

32.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

34.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

38.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Buddha

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh