Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

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

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Plato

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

11.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Real Live Preacher

28.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

30.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carmichael, Amy

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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

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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

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry