Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

10.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

11.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

14.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

15.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

18.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

19.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

23.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

27.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

28.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

29.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

30.

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

31.

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

Allen, Woody

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

33.

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

34.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

36.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

39.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

47.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

48.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

Jane Austen