Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Love

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Jennifer Aniston

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Peter Ustinov

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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali