Motivational Quotes

Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

- Croft, Roy

Best Quotes about Love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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.

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jennifer Aniston

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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.

19.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

27.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

29.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

31.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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.

33.

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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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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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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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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 and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord