Motivational Quotes

Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Mcdonald, George

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

William Shakespeare

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

10.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

12.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

16.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

17.

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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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Margaret Cho

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

30.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

31.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Mother Teresa

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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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.