Motivational Quotes

Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

10.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

11.

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

12.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

13.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

15.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

16.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

18.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

21.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

22.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

23.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

24.

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

25.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

26.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

27.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

31.

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

Proverb, Japanese

32.

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

Crawford, Joan

33.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

36.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

37.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

43.

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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

49.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

Willis, Bruce