Motivational Quotes

Love

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Love

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, David

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

11.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

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

Buddha

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

16.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

Levine, Stephen

24.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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

38.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

40.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

41.

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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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

46.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.