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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

11.

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

12.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

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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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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

17.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

28.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

29.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

41.

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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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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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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William