Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fox, Emmet

Best Quotes about Love

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Augustine, St.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

10.

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

Erica Jong

11.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

14.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

22.

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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

28.

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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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 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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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Bertrand Russell

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William