Motivational Quotes

Love

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Hugo, Victor

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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

11.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

National Lampoon

13.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

15.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

Martineau, Harriet

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

28.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

31.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Margaret Cho

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

44.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith