Motivational Quotes

Love

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

11.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

12.

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

Lennon, John

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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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 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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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 the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

43.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Lovers should also have their days off.