Motivational Quotes

Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Murdoch, Iris

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

43.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Federman, Irwin

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche