Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Julie Morgenstern

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Augustine, St.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

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

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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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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

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

William Penn

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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