Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

14.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Wieder, Marcia

16.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

19.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

20.

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

Buddha

21.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

25.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

26.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

27.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

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

Jennifer Aniston

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel 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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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.

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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

40.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

43.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.