Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

10.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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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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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Orwell, George

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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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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

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard