Motivational Quotes

Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about 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

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

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Lao-Tzu

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

10.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Clark, Melanie

13.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

14.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

15.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

18.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

19.

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

20.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

21.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Tracy, Brian

27.

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

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

30.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

35.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

36.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

37.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

40.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

41.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Harrigan, John

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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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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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David