Motivational Quotes

Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

11.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

12.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

13.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

15.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

16.

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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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

18.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

21.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

25.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

27.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

28.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

31.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

32.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

34.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

36.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

37.

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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

39.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

40.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

41.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

45.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

46.

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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

48.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

49.

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

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John