Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, while you are able to love.

- Frieligrath, A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Shakespeare, William

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

12.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

14.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

15.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

25.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

29.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

30.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Seneca

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

40.

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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

45.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

46.

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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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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