Motivational Quotes

Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert