Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Heinlein, Robert

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

10.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

11.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

16.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Laing, R. D.

20.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

21.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

33.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael