Motivational Quotes

Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

11.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

13.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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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

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

18.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

19.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

20.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Bible

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Penn

30.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

31.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

40.

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

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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

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

47.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Jane Austen