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

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Desai, Yogi

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

10.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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

21.

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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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

28.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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

30.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

35.

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

36.

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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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.