Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

- Dewar, Thomas Robert

Best Quotes about Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Harrigan, John

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Scherer, Paul

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

West, Mae

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Michael Patrick King

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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