Motivational Quotes

Love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

Voltaire

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Diane Ackerman

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

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Hay, Louise L.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Pythagoras

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Plato

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

21.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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 means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.