Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

11.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

12.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

13.

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

14.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

15.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

17.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

18.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

19.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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.

21.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

22.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

28.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

29.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

30.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

33.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

37.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

38.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

41.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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

44.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

46.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ferry, Brian