Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Love

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

11.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

19.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

40.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

42.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Scherer, Paul

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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.