Motivational Quotes

Love

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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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 is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras