Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Blanton, Smiley

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

John of the Cross, St.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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 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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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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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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Thurber, James

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand