Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

- Oxenham, John

Best Quotes about Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

14.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Jane Austen

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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 often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

38.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Voltaire

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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

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

46.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales