Motivational Quotes

Love

Love without attachment is light.

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Love

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

11.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

12.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

16.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

18.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

23.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

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

William Penn

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

30.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

32.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

34.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

35.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Davis, Bette

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

Calvino, Italo

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Charles M. Schulz

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

Brown, David

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

Buber, Martin

49.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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.