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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Levine, Stephen

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Toni Morrison

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]