Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Ackerman, Diane

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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 the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

13.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

16.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

17.

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

18.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

20.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

22.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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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.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

32.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

40.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

41.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bible

43.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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.

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?