Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Aristotle

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare