Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chanel, Coco

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

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.

12.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

14.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Harrigan, John

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Augustine, St.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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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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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Duras, Marguerite

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.