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

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Disney, Walt

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sophocles

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Sand, George

44.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery