Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

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

Desai, Yogi

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

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

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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

Aragon, Louis

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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 a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Brown, Les

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.