Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Best Quotes about Love

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Duras, Marguerite

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Irving, Washington

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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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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

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

John Sheffield

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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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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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

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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

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

42.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare