Motivational Quotes

Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Best Quotes about Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

William Shakespeare

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Rita Rudner

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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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

27.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David