Motivational Quotes

Love

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Love

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

Carroll, Pat

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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 is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand