Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jennifer Aniston

Best Quotes about Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

11.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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.

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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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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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

43.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce