Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

John Sheffield

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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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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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

12.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

13.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

14.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

20.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

25.

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

Peter Ustinov

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

32.

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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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

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

39.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally