Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hay, Louise L.

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Hertl, Nick

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Capote, Truman

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Seabury, David

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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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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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mcdonald, George

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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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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug