Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

'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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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.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Aristotle

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

32.

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.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Dane, Frank

43.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya