Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

- Judalet, Curtis

Best Quotes about Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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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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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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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

24.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

25.

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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

28.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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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 is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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 sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Victor Hugo

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich