Motivational Quotes

Love

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

10.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

13.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

14.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

15.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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.

20.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

25.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

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

27.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

31.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

34.

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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