Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

11.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

12.

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

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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

20.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

49.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von