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

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

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

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

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

33.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is the beauty of the soul.