Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Sarton, May

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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 woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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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

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bible

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.