Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

- Childs, Williams

Best Quotes about Love

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

10.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

12.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

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

Sand, George

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

15.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

17.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

18.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

20.

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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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

24.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

25.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

27.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

28.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Ovid

30.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

31.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

32.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

34.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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

39.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

40.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

43.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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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

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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.

Davis, Bette

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace