Motivational Quotes

Love

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

10.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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.

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

19.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

30.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

46.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

50.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James