Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Swift, Jonathan

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

13.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

14.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

15.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

16.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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

21.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

25.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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

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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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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bailey, Pearl

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates