Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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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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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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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

William Shakespeare

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

Federman, Irwin

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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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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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

Sarton, May

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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.

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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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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