Motivational Quotes

Love

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

- Young, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Burton, Robert

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pilgrim, Peace

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Shakespeare

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

46.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

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