Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

24.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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

27.

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

Confucius

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

William Shakespeare

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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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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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Guthrie, Arlo