Motivational Quotes

Love

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

- Zukav, Gary

Best Quotes about Love

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

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

10.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

12.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

18.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Thurber, James

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

39.

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

Buddha

40.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

41.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.