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

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

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

11.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

William Shakespeare

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

31.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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