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

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Paolo Giordano

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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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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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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Pythagoras

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol