Motivational Quotes

Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde

Best Quotes about Love

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Dane, Frank

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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

23.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

38.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.