Motivational Quotes

Love

Be that self which one truly is.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Auvil, Myrtle

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Layton, Irving

11.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

12.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

14.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

18.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

19.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

20.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

24.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

27.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

28.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

30.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

31.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

32.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

33.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

34.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

35.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Jean Anouilh

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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

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

40.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

41.

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

42.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

43.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

47.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Alan Watts