Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Gordon, Rabbi J.

Best Quotes about Love

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Alan Watts

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

11.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

14.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

15.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

17.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

29.

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

DiFranco, Ani

30.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

35.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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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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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

46.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

49.

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

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne