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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

10.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

11.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

15.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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

20.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

21.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

30.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

31.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

John Sheffield

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

35.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

John of the Cross, St.

40.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

41.

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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

44.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

45.

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

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

48.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.