Motivational Quotes

Love

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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 the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

34.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Diane Ackerman

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

39.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence