Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

13.

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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

17.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

18.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

21.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

22.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

24.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

25.

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

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bible

29.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

30.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

33.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

38.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

39.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

40.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

41.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.