Motivational Quotes

Love

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Love

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

10.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

11.

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

12.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

13.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

14.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

15.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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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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

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Harrigan, John

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.