Motivational Quotes

Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

- Gay, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Leunig, Michael

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

10.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

11.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

15.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

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

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

19.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

30.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

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

32.

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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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

37.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

41.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

46.

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

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

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