Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

11.

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

Traherne, Thomas

12.

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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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Eucharista Ward

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

29.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

36.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

42.

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

J. K. Rowling

43.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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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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's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John