Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

- Hertl, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

12.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

13.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

17.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Delp, Alexis

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Carroll, Pat

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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

Jerome, St.

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund