Motivational Quotes

Love

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

31.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.