Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

10.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

11.

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

12.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

14.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

15.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

16.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

17.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

18.

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

Crawford, Joan

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

22.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

23.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

24.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

25.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

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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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

30.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

31.

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

Clark, Melanie

32.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

34.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

38.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

39.

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

40.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

42.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

43.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

44.

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

Southey, Robert

45.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

46.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath