Motivational Quotes

Love

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

- Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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

Brown, Les

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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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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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De