Motivational Quotes

Love

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

10.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

21.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

37.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

40.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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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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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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

49.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.