Motivational Quotes

Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dane, Frank

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

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

10.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

19.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

20.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

21.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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

24.

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

Jerome, St.

25.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

26.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

27.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

28.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

33.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

34.

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

Anouilh, Jean

35.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

38.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Brown, David

41.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

42.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

47.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese