Motivational Quotes

Love

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Love

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

Allen, Woody

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Fox, Emmet

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.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

William Shakespeare

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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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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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Brown, David

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]