Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Desai, Yogi

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

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

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Southey, Robert

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

10.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

11.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

14.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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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.

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean