Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Crawshaw, Richard

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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 was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Julie Morgenstern

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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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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

47.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda