Motivational Quotes

Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Best Quotes about Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Allen, Woody

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

30.

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

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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

35.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Buber, Martin

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

49.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl