Motivational Quotes

Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Love

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

12.

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

13.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

20.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

21.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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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

25.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

National Lampoon

46.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.