Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Laing, R. D.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

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

Confucius

11.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

12.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

13.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

14.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

16.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

18.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

24.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

25.

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

26.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

27.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

28.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

29.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

30.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

31.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

33.

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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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

41.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

43.

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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

46.

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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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.