Motivational Quotes

Love

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Best Quotes about Love

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Duffy, Maureen

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Smith, Sydney

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

22.

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

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambless, David

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Love alone could waken love.