Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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 gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Brookner, Anita

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Vicious, Sid

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

William Shakespeare

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford