Motivational Quotes

Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Leunig, Michael

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Carmichael, Amy

10.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

18.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

19.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

22.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

24.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

26.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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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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

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

38.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

40.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

41.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

42.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

43.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

44.

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

45.

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

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

49.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Learn what you are and be such.