Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brown, David

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

11.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Harrigan, John

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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 without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

21.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

32.

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

Chanel, Coco

33.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

39.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

43.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.