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 idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

DiFranco, Ani

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.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

10.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

11.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

12.

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

Anderson, Margaret

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

14.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

15.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

16.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

19.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

20.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

24.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

25.

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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

28.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

32.

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

John Sheffield

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

35.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

36.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

37.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

38.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

39.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

40.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

41.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

43.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

45.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane