Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Mother Teresa

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Vicious, Sid

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Buber, Martin

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.