Motivational Quotes

Love

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Brown, David

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

Donne, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

10.

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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Peguy, Charles

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

28.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Byron, Lord

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.