Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

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

West, Mae

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Barry, Lynda

11.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

12.

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

15.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

17.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

18.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

28.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

29.

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

Charles M. Schulz

30.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

31.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Levine, Stephen

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

35.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chanel, Coco

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

49.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

50.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.