Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Proverb, Japanese

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

15.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

16.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

18.

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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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

20.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

28.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Brookner, Anita

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

45.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.