Motivational Quotes

Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

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

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.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

12.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

17.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

18.

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

Ovid

19.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

21.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

23.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

24.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

25.

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

26.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

33.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Duras, Marguerite

36.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

38.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

39.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

43.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

46.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

47.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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We love because it's the only true adventure.