Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

- Kent, Sister Corita

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hay, Louise L.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

21.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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 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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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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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.