Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Voltaire

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

10.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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

13.

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

14.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

15.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

17.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

18.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

20.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Bertrand Russell

22.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

23.

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

Sophocles

24.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

25.

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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

27.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

28.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

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

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

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

Clark, Melanie

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

42.

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

Bridges, Robert

43.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Bible

45.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Marlowe, Christopher

47.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

48.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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