Motivational Quotes

Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

12.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

Southey, Robert

17.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

39.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.