Motivational Quotes

Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

11.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Capote, Truman

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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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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

Toni Morrison

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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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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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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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Love is all you need.