Motivational Quotes

Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Bible

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Strindberg, J. August

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

10.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

11.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

12.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Youngman, Henny

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

31.

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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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

40.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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

42.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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 is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.