Motivational Quotes

Love

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

10.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Chanel, Coco

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

39.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George