Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

- Kempton, Sally

Best Quotes about Love

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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 everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Real Live Preacher

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

11.

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

Murdoch, Iris

12.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

14.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

Duras, Marguerite

16.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

17.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

18.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

19.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

22.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

23.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

24.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

29.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Murdoch, Iris

31.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

32.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

33.

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.

34.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

35.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

36.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

39.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

40.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

41.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

50.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy