Motivational Quotes

Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

John Sheffield

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

20.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?