Motivational Quotes

Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

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

David Viscott

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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

11.

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

12.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Law, William

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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

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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

34.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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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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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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