Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

13.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

14.

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

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

17.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

18.

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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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

20.

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

21.

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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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

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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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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

25.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

26.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

30.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

32.

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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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

36.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

38.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

40.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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.

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

John of the Cross, St.

47.

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

48.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

49.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

50.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite