Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hertl, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hoffman, Lisa

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

11.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Jane Austen

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

25.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Sophocles

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

William Shakespeare

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

33.

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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

41.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

Carl Jung

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hugo, Victor