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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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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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 can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

James, William

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Strindberg, J. August

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae