Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Mother Teresa

10.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

11.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Rowland, Helen

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ackerman, Diane

33.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

34.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De