Motivational Quotes

Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

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

Reagan, Ronald

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

24.

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

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

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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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.