Motivational Quotes

Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

- Strindberg, J. August

Best Quotes about Love

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Chanel, Coco

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

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

11.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

12.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Brown, David

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

William Shakespeare

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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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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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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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

29.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

40.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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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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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret