Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

- Dewar, Thomas Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

11.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

14.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

15.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

17.

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

Blanton, Smiley

18.

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

Bible

19.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

20.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

21.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

27.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

28.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

29.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

31.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

33.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

34.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

42.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

43.

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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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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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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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, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George