Motivational Quotes

Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Carl Jung

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

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

David Viscott

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

Murdoch, Iris

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Bible

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales