Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- David Viscott

Best Quotes about Love

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Swift, Jonathan

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

William Shakespeare

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Peter Ustinov

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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

Chambless, David

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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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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert