Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Best Quotes about Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Fromm, Erich

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

10.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

15.

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

Updike, John

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

19.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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 rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

22.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

25.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

28.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

29.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

32.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

33.

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

34.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

36.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

39.

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

Anouilh, Jean

40.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

44.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

45.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

46.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

49.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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