Motivational Quotes

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

10.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

11.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

19.

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

20.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

22.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

32.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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

34.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

William Shakespeare

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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 are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

40.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

43.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Federman, Irwin

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

Jane Austen

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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

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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