Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brown, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Jean Anouilh

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.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

10.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

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

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

19.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

25.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

26.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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

Layton, Irving

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

Southey, Robert

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen