Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

'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

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

10.

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

11.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

12.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

19.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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

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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Federman, Irwin

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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.

31.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

32.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

38.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

42.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

47.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

48.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

49.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George