Motivational Quotes

Love

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

- Matthews, Andrew

Best Quotes about Love

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

Davies, Robertson

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

10.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

13.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Southey, Robert

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Scherer, Paul

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

28.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

33.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

36.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

37.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

38.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

40.

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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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

44.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Law, William

48.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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