Motivational Quotes

Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

12.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

16.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

21.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

22.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

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

Allen, Woody

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Ice T

28.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

34.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

42.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

45.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.