Motivational Quotes

Love

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

- Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Best Quotes about Love

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Elizabeth Aston

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

22.

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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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

25.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Mother Teresa

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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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

36.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Peter Ustinov

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

40.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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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 is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

44.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

46.

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.

47.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Capote, Truman

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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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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare