Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

10.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

11.

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

Peter Ustinov

12.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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.

14.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

15.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Dane, Frank

27.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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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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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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.

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

William Shakespeare

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

William Shakespeare

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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 the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.