Motivational Quotes

Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Love

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

Durrell, Lawrence

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Buscaglia, Leo

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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 matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato