Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Bette Davis

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May