Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Love

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

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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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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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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

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Connolly, Cyril

33.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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 good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges