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

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

14.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

17.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

21.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

25.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

27.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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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.

Bette Davis

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

38.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

40.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

44.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

48.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

49.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau