Motivational Quotes

Love

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Orwell, George

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Fox, Emmet

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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