Motivational Quotes

Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Blanton, Smiley

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

11.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

13.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

15.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

19.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

22.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Reagan, Ronald

25.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Brown, David

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

28.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

30.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

31.

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

32.

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

Osgood, Samuel

33.

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

Julie Morgenstern

34.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Aristotle

40.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

50.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.