Motivational Quotes

Love

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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Best Quotes about Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Jennifer Aniston

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Plato

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

Sand, George

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Chambless, David

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

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

29.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

49.

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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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.