Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

42.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid