Motivational Quotes

Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

- Steindl-Rast, David

Best Quotes about Love

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Alan Watts

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

10.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

12.

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

Carl Jung

13.

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

DiFranco, Ani

14.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

15.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

16.

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.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

18.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

20.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

21.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

22.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

25.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

26.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

27.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

28.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

30.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

31.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

34.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

35.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Wilkerson, David

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

Peter Ustinov

40.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

41.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

42.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

43.

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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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 (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

48.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

49.

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

Donne, John

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul