Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Clark, Melanie

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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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

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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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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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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