Motivational Quotes

Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

- Auvil, Myrtle

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Duffy, Maureen

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Wilkerson, David

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Mencken, H. L.

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean