Motivational Quotes

Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

John Sheffield

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Proverb, Jewish

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

10.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

11.

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 a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

14.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

15.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

18.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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

20.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

22.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

23.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Buddha

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Carroll, Pat

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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

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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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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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

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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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

48.

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

William Shakespeare

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilkerson, David