Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

11.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

12.

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

Carmichael, Amy

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Buddha

19.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

20.

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

Southey, Robert

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

25.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

28.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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.

31.

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

32.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

33.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

34.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Charles M. Schulz

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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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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

44.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

48.

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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges