Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

- More, Hannah

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Southey, Robert

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

14.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

15.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

16.

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

Delp, Alexis

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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

18.

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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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

22.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

24.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

25.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Duras, Marguerite

30.

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

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

33.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

34.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

35.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

39.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

45.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T