Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Love

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Sarton, May

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Connolly, Cyril

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

West, Mae

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle