Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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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 is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Ferry, Brian

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Murdoch, Iris