Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

Voltaire

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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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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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

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

Bible

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

18.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

25.

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

26.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

31.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

34.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Thurber, James

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

42.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

43.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

44.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Verse, A Haiku

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

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