Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Best Quotes about Love

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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 way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

23.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

26.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

31.

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 seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Anouilh, Jean

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar