Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

- Childs, Williams

Best Quotes about Love

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Pascal, Blaise

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

William Penn

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

10.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

11.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

12.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

13.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

William Shakespeare

16.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

18.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

19.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

William Shakespeare

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

27.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

28.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

31.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Carroll, Pat

45.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

46.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John