Motivational Quotes

Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Best Quotes about Love

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Taylor, Jeremy

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Real Live Preacher

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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.

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dane, Frank

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Southey, Robert

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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