Motivational Quotes

Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Love

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Calvino, Italo

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

15.

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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

19.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

20.

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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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

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

31.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

33.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

34.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

40.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

44.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

46.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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 is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch