Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Brookner, Anita

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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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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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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

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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