Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Love

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

27.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.