Motivational Quotes

Love

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

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.

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

Vicious, Sid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

11.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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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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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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.

22.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Calvino, Italo

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Irving, Washington

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.