Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Ackerman, Diane

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

10.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

14.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

17.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

18.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

20.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Jerome, St.

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Fox, Emmet

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

30.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

31.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

32.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

40.

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

Saltus, Edgar

41.

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

National Lampoon

42.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Margaret Cho

44.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

45.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

46.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

48.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore