Motivational Quotes

Love

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Love

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Lao-Tzu

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

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

Bridges, Robert

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

10.

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

Capote, Truman

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

15.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

25.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne