Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

Ice T

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

Bible

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

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Buber, Martin

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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bible

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

49.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert