Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

10.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

16.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

18.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

19.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

20.

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

Proverb

21.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

26.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

27.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

28.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

29.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

30.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

31.

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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

34.

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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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

39.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

41.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

42.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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

48.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.