Motivational Quotes

Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Harrigan, John

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sophocles

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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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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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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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