Motivational Quotes

Love

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

Reagan, Ronald

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Disney, Walt

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Irving, Washington

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

28.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare