Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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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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

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas