Motivational Quotes

Love

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

11.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

18.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sophocles

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

31.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

33.

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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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

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.