Motivational Quotes

Love

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Love

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

Stravinsky, Igor

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Jeph Jacques

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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

15.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

William Shakespeare

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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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

39.

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

William Shakespeare

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.