Motivational Quotes

Love

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

National Lampoon

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

13.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

14.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

19.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Scott Westerfeld

21.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

31.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

32.

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

33.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

34.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

35.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

36.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

37.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

40.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

45.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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