Motivational Quotes

Love

Do all things with love.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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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

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Penn

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Meredith, George

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

King Jr. Martin Luther