Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Shakespeare, William

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

11.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

12.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

13.

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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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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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 final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Aristotle

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

39.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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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