Motivational Quotes

Love

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Groening, Matt

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

23.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Law, William

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Capote, Truman

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Jennifer Aniston

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Clark, Melanie

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas