Motivational Quotes

Love

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

- Zukav, Gary

Best Quotes about Love

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

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

William Penn

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

10.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

11.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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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

31.

'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

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

33.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

34.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

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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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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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

42.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

43.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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.

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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.