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

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Turner, Ted

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

10.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Proverb, Japanese

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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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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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt