Motivational Quotes

Love

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

- Aristotle

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

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Bourget, Paul

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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