Motivational Quotes

Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Best Quotes about Love

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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.

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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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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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.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Alan Watts

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

33.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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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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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

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.