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

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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 is a serious mental disease.

Plato

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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.

11.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

12.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Jean Anouilh

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

18.

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

Vicious, Sid

19.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

40.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.