Motivational Quotes

Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Love

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

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

10.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

11.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

12.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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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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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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

16.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

21.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

27.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

31.

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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pythagoras

46.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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