Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Japanese

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

12.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

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

J. K. Rowling

22.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

23.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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

26.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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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 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

29.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

30.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

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

Proverb, Jewish

32.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Mother Teresa

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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 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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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

42.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

43.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

44.

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

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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