Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilkerson, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Randy K. Milholland

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

10.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

15.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

18.

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

Bible

19.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

20.

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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

23.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

31.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

32.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

34.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

37.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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