Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than justice.

- Sting

Best Quotes about Love

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

Confucius

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Ovid

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Carmichael, Amy

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Aragon, Louis

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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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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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.