Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

22.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hugo, Victor

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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.

Bette Davis

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Scherer, Paul

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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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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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato