Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

12.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

13.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

17.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Mother Teresa

19.

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

Desai, Yogi

20.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

22.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

24.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

27.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

30.

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

31.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

32.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

33.

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

Reagan, Ronald

34.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

35.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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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

38.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

39.

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

Martineau, Harriet

40.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

42.

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 is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

48.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu