Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

10.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

12.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

16.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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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

18.

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

Willis, Bruce

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

25.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

26.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

28.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

29.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

30.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Calvino, Italo

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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