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

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bertrand Russell

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Horton, Doug

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

18.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

20.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Dryden, John

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

28.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

29.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

30.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

32.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

35.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

36.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

37.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

39.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

40.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

42.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

43.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

45.

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

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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

49.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.