Motivational Quotes

Love

Be that self which one truly is.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Love

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

11.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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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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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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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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

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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