Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

- Eschenbach, Marie E.

Best Quotes about Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Ovid

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Victor Hugo

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

10.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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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 or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

22.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

25.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

31.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

32.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

33.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

34.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Croft, Roy

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Brown, Les

43.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Law, William

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.