Motivational Quotes

Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Levine, Stephen

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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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Wilde, Kim

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

John Sheffield

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De