Motivational Quotes

Love

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

10.

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

Alan Watts

11.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

12.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

18.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

22.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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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 a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

39.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

40.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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 is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.