Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

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

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

Carroll, Pat

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Aristotle

11.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

30.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Delp, Alexis

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin