Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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.

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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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Capote, Truman

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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