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

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Fox, Emmet

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Lao-Tzu

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

15.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

16.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

17.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

18.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

19.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

20.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

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

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

25.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

28.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

29.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Scott Westerfeld

31.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

34.

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

Buddha

36.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

37.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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

40.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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

48.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

49.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.