Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Jean Anouilh

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

10.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

13.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

17.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

26.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

28.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

32.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

33.

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

Jennifer Aniston

34.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

41.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Pythagoras

44.

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

45.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.