Motivational Quotes

Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

13.

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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Euripides

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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.

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki