Motivational Quotes

Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

12.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

13.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

15.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

16.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

20.

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

Thurber, James

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

23.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

25.

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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Plato

31.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

32.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

33.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

40.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

44.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

45.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

48.

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

Bible

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar