Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a better teacher than duty.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

10.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

25.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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 sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

33.

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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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Ferry, Brian

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

49.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David