Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

- Powell, Anthony

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Dane, Frank

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Confucius

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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

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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.