Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

Orwell, George

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

10.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

11.

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

12.

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

West, Mae

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

16.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

19.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

20.

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

21.

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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

25.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

27.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

34.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

38.

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.

39.

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

Real Live Preacher

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John