Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

10.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

16.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

21.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

30.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

31.

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

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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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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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 yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De