Motivational Quotes

Love

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Love

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Levine, Stephen

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

10.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

11.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

12.

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

Alan Watts

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

15.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

16.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

18.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

19.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

James, William

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

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.

29.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Augustine, St.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

36.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

37.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

38.

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

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

41.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

48.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

49.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese