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

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

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

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

Proverb, Irish

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carroll, Pat

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.