Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about 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

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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