Motivational Quotes

Love

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

- Fitzgerald, Zelda

Best Quotes about Love

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Delp, Alexis

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

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

William Shakespeare

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Jane Austen

12.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

19.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

28.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

William Shakespeare

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Du Coeur

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick