Motivational Quotes

Love

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

- Leunig, Michael

Best Quotes about Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

Irving, Washington

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Levine, Stephen

12.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

13.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

14.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

15.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

16.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

19.

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

Rita Rudner

20.

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

Laing, R. D.

21.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

22.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

27.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

31.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

32.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

33.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Wieder, Marcia

40.

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

Vicious, Sid

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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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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis