Motivational Quotes

Love

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hertl, Nick

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

Williams, William Carlos

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

17.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

18.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

19.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

20.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

21.

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

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

23.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

24.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

25.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

27.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

28.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

30.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

31.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

32.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

34.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

35.

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 is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

38.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

39.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

41.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

42.

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

Harrigan, John

43.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

44.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

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 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 a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord