Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Proverb

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

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

Seneca

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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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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

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Disney, Walt

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.