Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- David Viscott

Best Quotes about Love

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

Leunig, Michael

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Law, William

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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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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

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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

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

Brooke, Rupert

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Paolo Giordano

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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

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas