Motivational Quotes

Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

- Stravinsky, Igor

Best Quotes about Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Wilde, Oscar

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Du Coeur

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De