Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Shakespeare, William

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Brown, Les

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Ovid

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

Bette Davis

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

50.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen