Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Carmichael, Amy

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

12.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

16.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

17.

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

18.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

19.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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

24.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

25.

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

Crawford, Joan

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

27.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

31.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

33.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

34.

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

35.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

36.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

44.

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

45.

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

Calvino, Italo

46.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

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