Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Shakespeare, William

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Youngman, Henny

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

William Shakespeare

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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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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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.