Motivational Quotes

Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Ackerman, Diane

11.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

18.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

19.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

20.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Proverb

24.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Toni Morrison

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

31.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

34.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

National Lampoon

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

38.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

42.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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 not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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