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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

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

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

10.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

11.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

12.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

17.

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

Confucius

18.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

19.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

26.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

27.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

28.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

31.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

36.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bridges, Robert

38.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

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

45.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

46.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

47.

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

Davies, Robertson

48.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

49.

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.

50.

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