Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Chambless, David

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Aristotle

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

11.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

12.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

13.

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

Vicious, Sid

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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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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

18.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

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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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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 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 makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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

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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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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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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.

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

William Shakespeare