Motivational Quotes

Love

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

- Young, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

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

Pythagoras

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Sand, George

10.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

11.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

12.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

13.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

14.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

19.

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

William Shakespeare

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Donne, John

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

25.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

27.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

30.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

41.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert