Motivational Quotes

Love

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Love

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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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

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

33.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas