Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Aragon, Louis

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Carmichael, Amy

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

Proverb

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

Charles M. Schulz

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

Levine, Stephen

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

John Sheffield