Motivational Quotes

Love

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Mencken, H. L.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

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

Jean Anouilh

11.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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

William Penn

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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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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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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

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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