Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sarton, May

Best Quotes about Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Taylor, Jeremy

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Vicious, Sid

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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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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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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 surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

47.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.