Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

- Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Best Quotes about Love

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Richardson, Nick

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

10.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

11.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

13.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Buddha

15.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

16.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

18.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

19.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

22.

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

23.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

24.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

25.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

26.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

28.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

29.

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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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

31.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

32.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

34.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

45.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.