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

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pythagoras

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Oates, Joyce Carol