Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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 find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Seabury, David

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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 love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Brown, Les

34.

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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

39.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Proverb, Jewish

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?