Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Saltus, Edgar

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

10.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

11.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

12.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

13.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

14.

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

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

16.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

18.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

20.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

22.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

25.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

27.

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

Confucius

28.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

30.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

31.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

42.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

43.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

44.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Bridges, Robert

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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