Motivational Quotes

Love

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

- Breton, Andre

Best Quotes about Love

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

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

Fromm, Erich

11.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Dane, Frank

14.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

16.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

18.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

19.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

20.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

21.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

23.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

28.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

33.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

34.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

35.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

41.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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

43.

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

44.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

45.

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

46.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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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.

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

49.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Updike, John