Motivational Quotes

Love

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

- James, William

Best Quotes about Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

10.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

13.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

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

Clark, Melanie

15.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

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

18.

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

Mother Teresa

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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

21.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

28.

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

Mother Teresa

29.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

30.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

31.

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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

33.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

40.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

41.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

45.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl