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

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Updike, John

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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 is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

11.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Desai, Yogi

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Brown, Les

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

23.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Vicious, Sid

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?