Motivational Quotes

Love

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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.

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

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

10.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

11.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

William Shakespeare

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

Delp, Alexis

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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

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

Desai, Yogi

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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

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy