Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

10.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

11.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

12.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

13.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

14.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

15.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

16.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

17.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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

20.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

21.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

23.

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

Law, William

25.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

35.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

36.

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

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

40.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

41.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

42.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

43.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

44.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Fromm, Erich

49.

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

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel