Motivational Quotes

Love

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Love

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Anouilh, Jean

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

17.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

18.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

20.

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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

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

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

42.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bible

44.

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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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

William Shakespeare

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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 what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo