Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Best Quotes about Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Peter Ustinov

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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 stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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 every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.

Bette Davis

17.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Dane, Frank

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.