Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Groening, Matt

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jean Anouilh

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Harrigan, John

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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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 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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.