Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Carmichael, Amy

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

14.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

18.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

21.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

David Viscott

23.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

24.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

25.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

27.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

28.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

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

Orwell, George

31.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

33.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

34.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Ovid

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

39.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

41.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

42.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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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

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

47.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

48.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William