Motivational Quotes

Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Love

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

10.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

11.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

12.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

13.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

15.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

17.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

18.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Bible

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

30.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Behn, Aphra

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

Covey, Stephen R.

40.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Mother Teresa

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