Motivational Quotes

Love

Love alone could waken love.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Love

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buddha

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hertl, Nick

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

William Shakespeare

12.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Turner, Ted

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

44.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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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