Motivational Quotes

Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Buddha

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Leunig, Michael

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

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

14.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Toni Morrison

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

24.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Augustine, St.

26.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

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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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Martineau, Harriet

31.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

32.

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

33.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Reik, Theodor

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