Motivational Quotes

Love

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

- Wilde, Kim

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

12.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

17.

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

Bridges, Robert

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

19.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

20.

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.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

27.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

34.

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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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

41.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

42.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck