Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jeanne Moreau

Best Quotes about Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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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 love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, 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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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Mcdonald, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.