Motivational Quotes

Love

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Calvino, Italo

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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 ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Alan Watts