Motivational Quotes

Love

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Mcdonald, George

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

10.

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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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

13.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

14.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

15.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

18.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

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

20.

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

21.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

23.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

25.

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

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

28.

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

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

33.

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

Charles M. Schulz

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

41.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius