Motivational Quotes

Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

11.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Dane, Frank

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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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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.

30.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

43.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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