Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Love

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

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

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

10.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Thurber, James

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Peguy, Charles

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

22.

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

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

24.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

Duras, Marguerite

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Charles M. Schulz

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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