Motivational Quotes

Love

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

- Duffy, Maureen

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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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 is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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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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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Jeph Jacques

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Buddha

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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

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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

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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 the bridge between two hearts.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette