Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Proverb, Irish

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

11.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

14.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

15.

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

Bible

16.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

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.

18.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

19.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

20.

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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

22.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

25.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

26.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

28.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

29.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

30.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

31.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

33.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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

35.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

36.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

41.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

42.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

43.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

46.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone