Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Diane Ackerman

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

12.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

13.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

14.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Behn, Aphra

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

32.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

38.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

39.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

40.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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