Motivational Quotes

Love

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Love

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Blanton, Smiley

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sarton, May

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

Kempis, Thomas

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bible

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph