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 is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

10.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Capote, Truman

12.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

13.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

15.

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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

43.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Ovid

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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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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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare