Motivational Quotes

Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Best Quotes about Love

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

22.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

33.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Rossetti, Christina

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Shakespeare, William

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre