Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Hay, Louise L.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jean Anouilh

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Smith, Sydney

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Jeanne Moreau

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul