Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

- Kent, Sister Corita

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Brown, David

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

27.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Rita Rudner

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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