Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Love

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Mother Teresa

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

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

10.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

11.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

12.

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

Alan Watts

13.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

14.

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

Youngman, Henny

15.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

16.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

20.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

22.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

24.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

26.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

27.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

28.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

29.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

30.

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

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

33.

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.

34.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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

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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

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.