Motivational Quotes

Love

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

- Desai, Yogi

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

William Shakespeare

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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 is the bridge between two hearts.

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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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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

William Shakespeare

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Harrigan, John

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda