Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Crawford, Joan

Best Quotes about Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

John Sheffield

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

10.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

William Shakespeare

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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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

37.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

39.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

40.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

43.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

44.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.