Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rossetti, Christina

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Williams, William Carlos

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

National Lampoon

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David