Motivational Quotes

Love

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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 an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

11.

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

Southey, Robert

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

14.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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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

23.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

27.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

33.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

40.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

41.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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