Motivational Quotes

Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about 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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

William Shakespeare

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

11.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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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

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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We can only learn to love by loving.