Motivational Quotes

Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Pascal, Blaise

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

Updike, John

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

11.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

13.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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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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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.

18.

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

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

21.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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

25.

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

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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 what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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 is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Thurber, James

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor