Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Buddha

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

12.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

13.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

John of the Cross, St.

17.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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

29.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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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

31.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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

48.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.