Motivational Quotes

Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

11.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

14.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

15.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

24.

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.

25.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

27.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

28.

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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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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 idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

43.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Turner, Ted

49.

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

Carmichael, Amy

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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.