Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

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

Turner, Ted

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

10.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

11.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

14.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

29.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

30.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Bible

37.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilkerson, David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish