Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

10.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

11.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

12.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

Carmichael, Amy

15.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

18.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

19.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Delp, Alexis

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

28.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Proverb, Japanese

33.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

34.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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 the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert