Motivational Quotes

Love

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

- Du Coeur

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

10.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

11.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

William Shakespeare

16.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

19.

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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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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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

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

23.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

24.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

25.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

27.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

28.

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

29.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Buddha

31.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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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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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

39.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

40.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

41.

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

Victor Hugo

42.

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

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

National Lampoon

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen