Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Aristotle

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

Layton, Irving

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

Reagan, Ronald

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

11.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

12.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

15.

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

Bible

16.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

17.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

18.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

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

20.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

21.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

22.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

23.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

25.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

26.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

30.

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

31.

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

Martineau, Harriet

32.

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

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

Bailey, Pearl

35.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Harrigan, John

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Julie Morgenstern

41.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

43.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

46.

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

47.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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