Motivational Quotes

Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

- Wycherley, William

Best Quotes about Love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

19.

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

Confucius

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Wilkerson, David

25.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

27.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

29.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

30.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

31.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

34.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

36.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Toni Morrison

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Vicious, Sid

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

Buddha

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.