Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Love

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

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

Rossetti, Christina

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Jeph Jacques

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Brown, David

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare