Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

10.

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

11.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

12.

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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Aragon, Louis

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

19.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

22.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

31.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

32.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

33.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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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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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 (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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Jane Austen

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone