Motivational Quotes

Love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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

Strindberg, J. August

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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

17.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

18.

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

Bible

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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

20.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

28.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Mcdonald, George

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

44.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner