Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Law, William

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

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Charles M. Schulz

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Dane, Frank

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

Mother Teresa

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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'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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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von