Motivational Quotes

Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

15.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

18.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

19.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

20.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

21.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

22.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

25.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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

27.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

29.

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

30.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

33.

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

34.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

35.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

36.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

38.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

40.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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

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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.

44.

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

Southey, Robert

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted