Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Love

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

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

10.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

13.

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.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

16.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

28.

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.

29.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

30.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

31.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

32.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

33.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

34.

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

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

38.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

50.

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