Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

- Movie, Wizard of Oz

Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Behn, Aphra

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rita Rudner

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Julie Morgenstern

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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

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

Jerome, St.

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne