Motivational Quotes

Love

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

- Desai, Yogi

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Croft, Roy

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

13.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

19.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

20.

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 the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

24.

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

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

Capote, Truman

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

30.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

41.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

42.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

43.

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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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Randy K. Milholland

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.