Motivational Quotes

Love

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Love

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

William Shakespeare

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

J. K. Rowling

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

David Viscott

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Wilkerson, David

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare