Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

10.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

18.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

21.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

Mother Teresa

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

25.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

28.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

29.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Carmichael, Amy

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Disney, Walt

45.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

49.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.