Motivational Quotes

Love

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Ackerman, Diane

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

DiFranco, Ani

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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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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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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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Pascal, Blaise

42.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae