Motivational Quotes

Love

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Love

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dryden, John

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Willis, Bruce

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

William Shakespeare

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ferry, Brian

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland