Motivational Quotes

Love

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Youngman, Henny

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

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

Jennifer Aniston

21.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

22.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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 the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

31.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

32.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

40.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Carl Jung

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

Groening, Matt

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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

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de