Motivational Quotes

Love

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lao-Tzu

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brown, David

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

18.

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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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

20.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

24.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

27.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

28.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

William Shakespeare

30.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

41.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Swift, Jonathan

43.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

44.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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