Motivational Quotes

Love

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Love

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Charles M. Schulz

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

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

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

Duffy, Maureen

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Burton, Robert

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Proverb

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

Clark, Melanie

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chambless, David

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.