Motivational Quotes

Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

- Delp, Alexis

Best Quotes about Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Seneca

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.