Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Kent, Sister Corita

10.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

11.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

12.

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

Dane, Frank

13.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

18.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

19.

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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

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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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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 and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

30.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mother Teresa

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

35.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Scott Westerfeld

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

41.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

45.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare