Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

11.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

12.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

30.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

34.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

Levine, Stephen

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

46.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard