Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Carmichael, Amy

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

10.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

11.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

12.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

18.

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

20.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Jerome, St.

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

25.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

30.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

31.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

34.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

43.

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

Bible

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet