Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

William Shakespeare

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

15.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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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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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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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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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Michael Patrick King

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

41.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

42.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.