Motivational Quotes

Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

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

Kent, Sister Corita

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Brooke, Rupert

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

12.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

13.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Carroll, Pat

25.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

27.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

28.

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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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

32.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

33.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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

39.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

40.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.