Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Bourget, Paul

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, 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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

18.

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

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

24.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

25.

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

26.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

30.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

33.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

42.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Alan Watts

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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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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.