Motivational Quotes

Love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

12.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

13.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

14.

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

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

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

24.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

25.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

34.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

35.

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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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Auerbach, Red

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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