Motivational Quotes

Love

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Willis, Bruce

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

Reik, Theodor

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

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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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Voltaire

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.