Motivational Quotes

Love

Do all things with love.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

National Lampoon

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry