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

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

10.

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

11.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

21.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

25.

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

Erica Jong

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

30.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Reik, Theodor

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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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