Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

13.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

14.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

20.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

21.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

25.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

29.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

30.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

34.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

43.

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

Verse, A Haiku

44.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland