Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Wilkerson, David

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late