Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Love

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

William Shakespeare

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

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 thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

William Penn

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Delp, Alexis