Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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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

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Calvino, Italo

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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.