Motivational Quotes

Love

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Aristotle

10.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

13.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

21.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Youngman, Henny

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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