Motivational Quotes

Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

'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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

10.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Bible

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Charles M. Schulz

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen