Motivational Quotes

Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Love

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Federman, Irwin

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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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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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Burton, Robert

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buddha

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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