Motivational Quotes

Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

- Vicious, Sid

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

10.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

11.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

12.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Sarton, May

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

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

Bible

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

46.

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

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean