Motivational Quotes

Love

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sophocles

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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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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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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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William