Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

11.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

12.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

17.

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

18.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

19.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

20.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

21.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

22.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

23.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

24.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

25.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

26.

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 alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

29.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

30.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

31.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

40.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

41.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

43.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

45.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin