Motivational Quotes

Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Randy K. Milholland

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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

27.

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.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Sarton, May

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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

37.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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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