Motivational Quotes

Love

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

11.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

12.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

14.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Hay, Louise L.

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

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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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

19.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

22.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

33.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

34.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Heinlein, Robert

42.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

45.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

46.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

48.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey