Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Jerome, St.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

32.

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

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

46.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu