Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

11.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

12.

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 is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

14.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

16.

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

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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

23.

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

Bible

24.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

28.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

32.

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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

34.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Dane, Frank

36.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

42.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

43.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel