Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

- Eschenbach, Marie E.

Best Quotes about Love

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilkerson, David

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

34.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson