Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Spanish

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Confucius

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Sand, George

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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