Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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

23.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Willis, Bruce

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

William Penn

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.