Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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.

33.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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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

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard