Motivational Quotes

Love

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

- DiFranco, Ani

Best Quotes about Love

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Taylor, Jeremy

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

10.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

12.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

13.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

14.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

15.

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

16.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

27.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

31.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

33.

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

James, William

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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.

35.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

36.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Wieder, Marcia

41.

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

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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

43.

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

44.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

45.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert