Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Love

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

10.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

11.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Leunig, Michael

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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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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

21.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

22.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jane Austen

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

35.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Swift, Jonathan

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

Bible

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

Calvino, Italo

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Angelis, Barbara De