Motivational Quotes

Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

18.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Charles M. Schulz

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

29.

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

Seneca

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

37.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

38.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thurber, James

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord