Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

11.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

14.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

15.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

19.

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

20.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

22.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Wieder, Marcia

28.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bible

31.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

34.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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

38.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Leunig, Michael

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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