Motivational Quotes

Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Best Quotes about Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Charles M. Schulz

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

10.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

11.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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

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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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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

28.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bridges, Robert

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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