Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Mencken, H. L.

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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.

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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

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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

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Verse, A Haiku

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

32.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

West, Mae

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Barry, Lynda

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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