Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

William Shakespeare

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

William Shakespeare

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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