Motivational Quotes

Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

12.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

16.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

17.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Duffy, Maureen

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

31.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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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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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

36.

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

37.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

41.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Orwell, George

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.