Motivational Quotes

Love

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

- Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Best Quotes about Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Mother Teresa

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Murdoch, Iris

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Carmichael, Amy

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius