Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilde, Kim

Best Quotes about Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Chambless, David

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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