Motivational Quotes

Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

10.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

11.

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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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

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

15.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

19.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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

25.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

31.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

32.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

34.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

35.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Dane, Frank

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.