Motivational Quotes

Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

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

DiFranco, Ani

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

12.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

13.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

15.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

16.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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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

18.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

19.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dane, Frank

23.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

27.

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

Tracy, Brian

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

29.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

William Shakespeare

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

35.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Sarton, May

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

43.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

49.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Julie Morgenstern