Motivational Quotes

Love

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

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Best Quotes about Love

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Shakespeare, William

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Real Live Preacher

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

William Shakespeare

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Reik, Theodor

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Auerbach, Red

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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

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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.

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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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.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.