Motivational Quotes

Love

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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

William Shakespeare

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

23.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

31.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

32.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

41.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith