Motivational Quotes

Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Crawshaw, Richard

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

17.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

20.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

24.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

25.

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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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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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

28.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Clark, Melanie

30.

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

31.

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

Heinlein, Robert

32.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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 love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Desai, Yogi

36.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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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.

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

41.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

43.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.