Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

William Shakespeare

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

10.

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

Verse, A Haiku

11.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

12.

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

Harrigan, John

13.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Pythagoras

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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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

James, William

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Bette Davis

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

30.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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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

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

43.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

44.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Bible

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha