Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Bible

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Mcdonald, George

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

Federman, Irwin

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

Du Coeur

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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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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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