Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

- Hurston, Zora Neale

Best Quotes about Love

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

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Proverb, Spanish

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

William Shakespeare

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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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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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.