Motivational Quotes

Love

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

10.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

11.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

28.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

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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

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

40.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

44.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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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

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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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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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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