Motivational Quotes

Love

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bertrand Russell

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Duras, Marguerite

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Croft, Roy

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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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

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare