Motivational Quotes

Love

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

- Cholmondeley, Mary

Best Quotes about Love

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Disney, Walt

10.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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.

12.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

14.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

15.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

16.

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

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

19.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

21.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

23.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

26.

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

Mother Teresa

27.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

28.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Wieder, Marcia

34.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

35.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

36.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

37.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

38.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Lennon, John

40.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

41.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

42.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

44.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

45.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

46.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.