Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than violence.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Love

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

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Federman, Irwin

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scherer, Paul

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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

Calvino, Italo

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of