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

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

11.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

12.

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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rossetti, Christina

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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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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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

48.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Chambless, David

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew