Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Charles M. Schulz

Best Quotes about Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Steindl-Rast, David

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Clark, Melanie

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

William Shakespeare

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Wieder, Marcia

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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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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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

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare