Motivational Quotes

Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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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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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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen