Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

- Toni Morrison

Best Quotes about Love

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

17.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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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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 alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

39.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur