Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Jane Austen

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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

21.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

29.

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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

James, William

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy