Motivational Quotes

Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Teasdale, Sara

Best Quotes about Love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carroll, Pat

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

10.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

13.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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

15.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

16.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

18.

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

19.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

20.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

21.

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

Carl Jung

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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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

24.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

25.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

26.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

27.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

30.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

31.

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

32.

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

Strindberg, J. August

33.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

34.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

35.

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

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

40.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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.