Motivational Quotes

Love

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Best Quotes about Love

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Eliot, T. S.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Voltaire

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

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Bible

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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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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

William Shakespeare

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin