Motivational Quotes

Love

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

10.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

11.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

14.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

17.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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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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

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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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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Carmichael, Amy

25.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

28.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

31.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

34.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

35.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

36.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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

46.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Duras, Marguerite

49.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis