Motivational Quotes

Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

- Carmichael, Amy

Best Quotes about Love

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

10.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

11.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Victor Hugo

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Wilde, Kim

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Hugo, Victor

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

42.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur