Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

- Scherer, Paul

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Meredith, George

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

10.

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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

14.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

29.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Nathan, George Jean

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

33.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

39.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.