Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Murdoch, Iris

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

28.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Euripides

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

Ferry, Brian

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

42.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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