Motivational Quotes

Love

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

10.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

11.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

12.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

19.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

20.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

28.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

29.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

30.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

31.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

40.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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.