Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

10.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

11.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

12.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

14.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

15.

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

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

Scherer, Paul

17.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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.

Davis, Bette

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

23.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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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

28.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

29.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

30.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

31.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hay, Louise L.

33.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

34.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

39.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

40.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

41.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

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

43.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.

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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

47.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

48.

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

National Lampoon

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.