Motivational Quotes

Love

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

13.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

15.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Hay, Louise L.

18.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

22.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

25.

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

Charles M. Schulz

26.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Sand, George

29.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

33.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.