Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

- Kempton, Sally

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mother Teresa

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Martineau, Harriet

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Calvino, Italo

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

William Shakespeare

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

10.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

11.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

12.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

13.

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

14.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

18.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

19.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

21.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

22.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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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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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

25.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

26.

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

27.

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

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

29.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

30.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

36.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

38.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

45.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von