Motivational Quotes

Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

10.

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

11.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

25.

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

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

28.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

30.

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

31.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

32.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

33.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

35.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

37.

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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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.