Motivational Quotes

Love

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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Best Quotes about Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Meredith, George

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

11.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Carroll, Pat

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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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.

Jung, Carl

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Wilkerson, David

22.

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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

25.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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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

27.

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 don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

30.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Every man loves what he is good at.