Motivational Quotes

Love

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

'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

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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 is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

19.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Brown, David

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

27.

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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Federman, Irwin

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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