Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Toni Morrison

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

10.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

11.

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

12.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

24.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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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 may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

27.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

29.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

30.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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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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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare