Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

10.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

12.

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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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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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

17.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

18.

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

19.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

21.

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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

24.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

31.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

32.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.