Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

Jeph Jacques

11.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

12.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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 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

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Behn, Aphra

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Seneca

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

46.

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

Bible

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent