Motivational Quotes

Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

- Doren, Mark Van

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Brown, Rita Mae

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

10.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

22.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

23.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

39.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

40.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.