Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

16.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

24.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

25.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

27.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

40.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

42.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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.

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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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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

49.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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