Motivational Quotes

Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Best Quotes about Love

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Federman, Irwin

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

10.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

11.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

12.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

Hay, Louise L.

15.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

20.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

21.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Martineau, Harriet

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Reagan, Ronald

29.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

30.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

33.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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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.