Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Rita Rudner

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Heinlein, Robert

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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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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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Turner, Ted

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare