Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bridges, Robert

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

28.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne