Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bible

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

10.

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

11.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

12.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

13.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

19.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

28.

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

29.

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

Law, William

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

31.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

32.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

33.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

34.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

35.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

36.

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

37.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Brown, David

41.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

42.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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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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.

45.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.