Motivational Quotes

Love

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Disney, Walt

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

Ackerman, Diane

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

10.

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

Mother Teresa

11.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

12.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

13.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

14.

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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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

18.

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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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

21.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Rowland, Helen

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare