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

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Southey, Robert

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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 is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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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

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Youngman, Henny

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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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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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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland