Motivational Quotes

Love

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Toni Morrison

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Brown, David

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Auerbach, Red

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Turner, Ted

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund