Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Buddha

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Carroll, Pat

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

10.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

12.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

17.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

18.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

19.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

22.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

29.

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

Hay, Louise L.

30.

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

Vicious, Sid

31.

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

32.

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

33.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

35.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

38.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

42.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

43.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

44.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

45.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.