Motivational Quotes

Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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?

Levine, Stephen

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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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 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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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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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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.