Motivational Quotes

Love

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

Sarton, May

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lao-Tzu

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

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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 is the bridge between two hearts.

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Vicious, Sid

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

William Shakespeare

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

38.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

39.

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

Youngman, Henny

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Southey, Robert

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes