Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Smith, Sydney

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

William Shakespeare

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Michael Patrick King

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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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

23.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

24.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

26.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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 ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

37.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas