Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Mcdonald, George

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Voltaire

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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