Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Meredith, George

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

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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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

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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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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

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ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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