Motivational Quotes

Love

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

10.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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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 is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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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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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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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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Jean Anouilh

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

37.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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 is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann