Motivational Quotes

Love

Love without attachment is light.

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

10.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

11.

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

Du Coeur

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

Randy K. Milholland

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

28.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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

Brown, Les

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar