Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Charles M. Schulz

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Bible

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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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 a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

49.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas