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

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

12.

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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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.

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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

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Dane, Frank

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

33.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

J. K. Rowling

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.