Motivational Quotes

Love

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

- Mooneyham, Stan

Best Quotes about Love

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, David

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Proverb, Irish

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

22.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

24.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Jerome, St.

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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.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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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.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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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

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.