Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

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

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hay, Louise L.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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 bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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

20.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Wilde, Kim

30.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

31.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

34.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

35.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

37.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

39.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

40.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.