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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

10.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

11.

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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

18.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

28.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

30.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

31.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Hay, Louise L.

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Guthrie, Arlo

37.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Sand, George

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.