Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

- Powell, Anthony

Best Quotes about Love

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Allen, Woody

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

11.

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

Carmichael, Amy

12.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Sand, George

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb

18.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

19.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

40.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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 is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.