Motivational Quotes

Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

16.

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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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

19.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

20.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

26.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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