Motivational Quotes

Love

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

- Disney, Walt

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

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Elizabeth Aston

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

William Shakespeare

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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