Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Durrell, Lawrence

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

10.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

13.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

15.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

49.

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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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van