Motivational Quotes

Love

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

- Carroll, Pat

Best Quotes about Love

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

14.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

17.

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 and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Desai, Yogi

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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

Bible

30.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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.

Davis, Bette

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

35.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Fromm, Erich

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

43.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.