Motivational Quotes

Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

- Laing, R. D.

Best Quotes about Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Spanish

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, David

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

19.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Vicious, Sid

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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

29.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Calvino, Italo

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl