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

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Jane Austen

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hugo, Victor

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Voltaire

10.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

11.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

12.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

15.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

19.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

21.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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.

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

Tracy, Brian

24.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

35.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

39.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

41.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Southey, Robert

46.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare