Motivational Quotes

Love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

William Shakespeare

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

16.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

32.

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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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

41.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Bette Davis

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.