Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

10.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

14.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

15.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Croft, Roy

18.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

19.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

20.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

22.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

23.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

24.

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

Reagan, Ronald

25.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

26.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

28.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

30.

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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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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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Margaret Cho

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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 is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

37.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

43.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

44.

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

Buber, Martin

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