Motivational Quotes

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Brown, David

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Southey, Robert

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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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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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

25.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Voltaire

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

34.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

39.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]