Motivational Quotes

Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Tomlin, Lily

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

11.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

12.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

13.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

18.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

20.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

Carroll, Pat

22.

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

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

John of the Cross, St.

24.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

30.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

31.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

32.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

34.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

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

Charles M. Schulz

36.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

37.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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

43.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

45.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

John of the Cross, St.

49.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry