Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Fox, Emmet

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

Murdoch, Iris

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

11.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

12.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

17.

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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

John of the Cross, St.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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 is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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

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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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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.