Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Covey, Stephen R.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

10.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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

27.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

32.

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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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Chambless, David

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

James, William

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

41.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat