Motivational Quotes

Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Jerome, St.

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.