Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Love

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Mcdonald, George

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

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

12.

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 a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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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.

15.

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

16.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

18.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

21.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

27.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

31.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

35.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo