Motivational Quotes

Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Shakespeare, William

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

10.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

11.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

16.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

17.

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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

21.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

22.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

24.

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

25.

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

Federman, Irwin

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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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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

29.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

30.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

34.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

38.

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

39.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

40.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

43.

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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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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, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.