Motivational Quotes

Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Charles M. Schulz

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

10.

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

11.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

12.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

13.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

14.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

16.

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

Bible

17.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

18.

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

19.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

21.

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

Delp, Alexis

22.

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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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

25.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

26.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

27.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

28.

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 love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

Strindberg, J. August

33.

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

Brown, David

34.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

35.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

38.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

39.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Seneca

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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

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

45.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

46.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

47.

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

48.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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