Motivational Quotes

Love

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

- Carroll, Pat

Best Quotes about Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

10.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

11.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

12.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

22.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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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

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

30.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

32.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

33.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

40.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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