Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Love

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

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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 is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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.

14.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

18.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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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

20.

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

21.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

22.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

25.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

27.

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

Saltus, Edgar

28.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

32.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

39.

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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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

41.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

West, Mae

48.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William