Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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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

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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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

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

30.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Duffy, Maureen

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

41.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

42.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire