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

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Capote, Truman

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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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 is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Augustine, St.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare