Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Love

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Layton, Irving

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.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

10.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

11.

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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Sand, George

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

Bible

18.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

22.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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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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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Law, William

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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

Davies, Robertson

45.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Crawford, Joan

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham