Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Brown, David

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

10.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

11.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Hay, Louise L.

13.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

14.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

17.

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

William Shakespeare

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

19.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

21.

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

Bible

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

Turner, Ted

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

Updike, John

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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

28.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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 don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Irish