Motivational Quotes

Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chambless, David

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

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

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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'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

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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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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Gogh, Vincent Van