Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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 and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

11.

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

Chambless, David

12.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Southey, Robert

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Fromm, Erich

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.