Motivational Quotes

Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Brown, Les

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

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

10.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Shakespeare

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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

39.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Irving, Washington

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Bertrand Russell

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.