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

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.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

11.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

19.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, Les

24.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

31.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

William Shakespeare

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Charles M. Schulz

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul