Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

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

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

14.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Scherer, Paul

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Bible

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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

Charles M. Schulz

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

38.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.