Motivational Quotes

Love

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilkerson, David

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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.