Motivational Quotes

Love

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Mother Teresa

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Margaret Cho

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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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

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

34.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

42.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.