Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

- Maupassant, Guy de

Best Quotes about Love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

34.

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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

44.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Richardson, Nick

48.

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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.