Motivational Quotes

Love

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

14.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Aristotle

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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

William Penn

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor