Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

11.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

12.

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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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Toni Morrison

20.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

24.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

32.

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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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.