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 makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

William Penn

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

10.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

12.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

20.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Proverb

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

31.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

37.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.