Motivational Quotes

Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Duras, Marguerite

22.

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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

31.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Buddha

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

38.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

39.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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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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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

49.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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