Motivational Quotes

Love

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

- Rossetti, Christina

Best Quotes about Love

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

10.

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

Laing, R. D.

11.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

12.

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

13.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

14.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

15.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

17.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

18.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

19.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

22.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

23.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickinson, Emily

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

30.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

31.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

37.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

39.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

40.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

41.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

42.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

45.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

46.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Scherer, Paul

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.