Motivational Quotes

Love

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Love

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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

12.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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 is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

28.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

30.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

32.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

DiFranco, Ani

35.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

37.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

38.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

40.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

48.

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

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.