Motivational Quotes

Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Bourget, Paul

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Donne, John

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carmichael, Amy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Toni Morrison

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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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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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Anouilh, Jean

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

Youngman, Henny

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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.

Davis, Bette

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Jean Anouilh

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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