Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Brookner, Anita

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

11.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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

37.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.