Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Victor Hugo

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

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

12.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

18.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

19.

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

20.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

27.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

29.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Steinfeld, Jake

31.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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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

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.