Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Anouilh, Jean

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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.

10.

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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

12.

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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

14.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

15.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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'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

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

Alan Watts

20.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

21.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

22.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Lennon, John

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

Irving, Washington

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

30.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

31.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

33.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

35.

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

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Duffy, Maureen

38.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

39.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De