Motivational Quotes

Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Love

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Brookner, Anita

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

11.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

13.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

14.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

20.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

21.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

25.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

26.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

27.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

29.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

32.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

33.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

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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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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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

39.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

45.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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