Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Southey, Robert

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

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.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Peter Ustinov

10.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

11.

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

Plato

12.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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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.

14.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

15.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

16.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

17.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

21.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

25.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

28.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

30.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Jean Anouilh

32.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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 and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

40.

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.

41.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

43.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

45.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

49.

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

50.

Love is a serious mental disease.