Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Jane Austen

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Jeph Jacques

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

11.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

12.

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

Byron, Lord

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

14.

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

15.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

18.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Victor Hugo

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John