Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Leunig, Michael

Best Quotes about Love

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

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.

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

DiFranco, Ani

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Cho

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Irving, Washington

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Leunig, Michael

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Mcdonald, George

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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William