Motivational Quotes

Love

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Best Quotes about Love

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Brookner, Anita

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

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 the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Plato

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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 never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire