Motivational Quotes

Love

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

11.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Thurber, James

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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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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sand, George

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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

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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

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

30.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Charles M. Schulz

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Smith, Sydney

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.