Motivational Quotes

Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Best Quotes about Love

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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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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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora