Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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

11.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Chambless, David

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Peter Ustinov

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Auerbach, Red

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Seneca

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.