Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Love

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Crawford, Joan

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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

David Viscott

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

35.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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.