Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Love

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Ferry, Brian

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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 the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Japanese

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La