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

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.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

12.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

13.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

15.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

16.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

20.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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

25.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

26.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

30.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

32.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Scherer, Paul

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

41.

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

42.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

46.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

50.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin