Motivational Quotes

Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

24.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

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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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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.