Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a better teacher than duty.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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

David Viscott

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Voltaire

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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

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

National Lampoon

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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.

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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