Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Love

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

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Murdoch, Iris

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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