Motivational Quotes

Love

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Love

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

34.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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.

40.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde