Motivational Quotes

Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eucharista Ward

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

Auerbach, Red

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

10.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Pavese, Cesare

14.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

22.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

33.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

35.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

39.

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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

42.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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