Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

12.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

13.

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

14.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

17.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

18.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

20.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

23.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Stravinsky, Igor

27.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

28.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

John of the Cross, St.

30.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

31.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

32.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

33.

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

Jeph Jacques

34.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

38.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

39.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

42.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

43.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

45.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.