Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Best Quotes about Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

12.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

13.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

14.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

18.

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

19.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

20.

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.

21.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

25.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

27.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

28.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

31.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

32.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

35.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

36.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

43.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Martineau, Harriet

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De