Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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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

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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato