Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Real Live Preacher

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

William Shakespeare

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jeph Jacques

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Youngman, Henny

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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

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bailey, Pearl

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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

35.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.