Motivational Quotes

Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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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

11.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

12.

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.

13.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

14.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Jerome, St.

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

26.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

27.

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.

28.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

29.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

30.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

31.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

32.

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

Brown, David

33.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

34.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

35.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

39.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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

41.

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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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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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

46.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

49.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.