Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

39.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.