Motivational Quotes

Love

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Best Quotes about Love

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

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Disney, Walt

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.