Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Love

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Meredith, George

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Chambless, David

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

10.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

11.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

13.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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 not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

25.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lennon, John

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

29.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

31.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

32.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Alan Watts

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

42.

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

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De