Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Love

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

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

Crawford, Joan

11.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

12.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

13.

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Calvino, Italo

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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

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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

21.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

31.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

39.

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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Scherer, Paul

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.