Motivational Quotes

Love

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Best Quotes about Love

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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 easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

11.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Irving, Washington

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

26.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

31.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

42.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank