Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

- Ginsberg, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Pilgrim, Peace

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

13.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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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

18.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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.

28.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Wilkerson, David

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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles