Motivational Quotes

Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

- Matthews, Andrew

Best Quotes about Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Verse, A Haiku

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Paolo Giordano

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Vicious, Sid

13.

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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Ustinov

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

29.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

30.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

34.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

38.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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

47.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.