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

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

William Shakespeare

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

11.

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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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Reagan, Ronald

20.

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 means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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.

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

43.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.