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

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.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

11.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

13.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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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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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Brown, Les

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Victor Hugo

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster