Motivational Quotes

Love

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Rowland, Helen

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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

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

Jerome, St.

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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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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

24.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

46.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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