Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Clark, Melanie

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

11.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

20.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

25.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

28.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

29.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

30.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

33.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

35.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Federman, Irwin

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Chambless, David

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl