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

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

Disney, Walt

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

10.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

11.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

15.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

16.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

19.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

23.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

24.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

25.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

26.

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

Wilkerson, David

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

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

Bible

32.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

33.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

35.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Buber, Martin

40.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

43.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

44.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.